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Sep 2, 2009, 3:21 pm

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Originally Posted by WBurcham

Oh, didn't realize that was your complaint that with a 25% bonus it doesn't make up for the fact that it's harder for you to redeem on DL versus AA. I guess it's about your travel patterns. If you fly TATL, it's probably easier to redeem DL awards for a DL or partner flight versus AA since you cannot use BA flights ex-US.

I fly many, many TATL flights and TATL redemptions are one of the areas of greatest concern for me. Given this and given what you said above, I conclude that we have different operational ideas about the meaning of "probably". For me, "probably" = at least half the time.